bthrn

There are tons of things posted to HN, which inevitably some people find interesting and some people don't. The fact is, many H-1B visa beneficiaries are in the technology field. In addition, many technology companies are pushing for immigration reform and this isn't the first time I've seen the subject come up here.

Your stance could be taken on any technology-related content posted to HN. "Those who care about Linux will keep their eyes and ears open to Linux news. It doesn't have to be posted here because most OS users have Windows" sounds pretty ridiculous to me.

Anybody notice their IPV6 address?

2a03:2880:2110:df07:face:b00c

-Large sales are usually done off exchanges because it's easier to agree on a price and leave the market unaffected by such a large transaction.

-The government is probably not interested in taking a long time to sell these blocks.

-Lastly, I imagine there are easily more than 10 individuals who are both financially willing and able to purchase blocks of this size.

Yes, since they're being sold in 3000 BTC blocks, the deposit is understandably high. I imagine the blocks will sell for much more than that.

Here's the network stream link so you don't have to download the file: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14poiunaepo...

In the past I've been able to get around this requirement by getting the stream directly. If today's anything like previous events, should be able to use these URLs to open in VLC (the URLs will change when the stream goes live):

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14poiunaepo...